Through a case-study of cocoa-farming in Ghana, this paper takes up the longrunning but recently neglected debate about …

In the global cocoa-chocolate chain, sustainability certification became the most widely applied industry tool to … respond to sustainability challenges, such as extreme poverty among cocoa producers, and related issues of child labor and … as key for a broader sustainability transition. Insights from key informant interviews in two Ghanaian cocoa communities …

Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana against changing inter-firm governance and price-setting institutions in the cocoa GCC. Based on … over 50 interviews with commodity trading houses (CTHs) and cocoa sector actors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, our analysis … unequal distributional outcomes in GCCs. The paper assesses national price stabilisation in the top cocoa-producing countries …

sustainability standards in Ghana's cocoa sector lead to socioeconomic benefits but not to ecological benefits for the plot … approach to understand the simultaneous effects of sustainability standards on socioeconomic and ecological outcomes in Ghana …'s cocoa sector. Our study is based on a rich dataset comprising representative household data from 814 smallholder cocoa …

ability to receive formal credit. We use data of 463 oil palm producers in Ghana and show that participation in contract …